Airsoft Games

Was recently browsing for information on airsoft games and turned up the following.

Airsoft on Wikipedia: Encyclopedic general information. Also see the article on legal issues.

AirsoftGunHelp: General info on airsoft and related gaming issues.

Airsoft Games Club: Airsoft forum...for players in the Philippines (?!).

One article talks about why airsoft is better than paintball. He's got an interesting take on things. Paintball has become a 'sanitized' sport, after all. When one has to call a gun a 'marker', then it's time to find a better crew to play with or upgrade to airsoft!

A dated CNN article regarding legislation against toy guns. Therein is this salient point:

"We don't think that the government has any business regulating toys, especially guns," said Angel Shamaya, executive director of the guns rights organization Keep and Bear Arms. "Banning toy guns is just another feel-good anti-gun maneuver, and we oppose it."

But for supporters of the ban, that's partly the point. Beyond preventing crimes committed using gun replicas, the councilmen simply want to keep guns of any sort out of the hands of youngsters. Said Vann, "If they use toy guns there's a greater chance they'll graduate to the real thing when they grow up."

The extreme-liberal lawmakers are the ones attempting to using legislation as a means of socio-cultural mind control. Such insidious self-righteous pseudo-intellectuals hate guns because they know that "right-wing crazies" want to subject them to the laws of Darwin for the evil stuff they do. I'm a 'gunner', so you know where I stand. Incidentally, that article has an error: it says "Desert Eagle .45-caliber handgun", but there is no .45 version, only .357 Magnum, .44 Magnum, and .50 AE. Further, the caliber should be written ".45" or "45-caliber"—as written in the article it's redundant. At any rate, this was the information I was looking for:

In October 1992, the U.S. Department of Commerce issued regulations governing the "Marking of Toy Look-Alike and Imitation Firearms." Under the new specifications, toy guns were required to bear a solid, "blaze-orange" plug at the tip of their barrel, or be colored entirely white, bright red, orange, yellow, green, blue, pink or purple.